For the chaps that came from airlines with low reputations that feel coming to work in fear for your job is the norm, than yes flydubai would be a small step up in life. For those that come from, shall we say, more established airlines, it is a step backwards even by lowcost standards. The problem is they brought pilots in with many years of experience on the promise that this "would be your last interview", "you will never want to leave", "Southwest of the middle-east", and everyones favorite "you do the math". Even if you forget the rosters and just concentrate on the management aspect this place is no where near anything like Southwest.
FYI. The 2 year no EK ban was not from EK, it was directly from the top at flydubai.....
AIMS could make everyone's roster better, but the users are clueless and won't let go of any control over the pilot group. They want to roster us like office workers, end of story......
commmand upgrades in 15 months? Got your app in? Welcome to rocket school!
"People" don't enjoy working in it. Everytime I go in the briefing room "people" are complaining about 6on/2off rosters with changing work patterns, getting sick from crew food, split A/B pay scales, lack of information from management, our top notch safety department that puts out soooooo much useful information to make the operation soooooo much safer, and the snazzy uniforms (hey, at least they are free right? and they get you a free drink at JBR security guard appreciation night!)